Archive for May 21st, 2010
How Many Calories Do You Burn While Tweeting?
Yep, there’s an app for that! TweetCalories, is a novelty web app that shows you approximately how many calories you’ve burned over the last 24 hours by tweeting, reports Mashable.com. The app works by assuming several factors. For example, it’s figured that the average word length in a tweet is about 6 characters. It assumes [...]
Bar Sound Bubble What a bubbleheaded idea. A college student in Scotland came up with a solution for chatty pub patrons who can’t hear their friends – the sound bubble. It’s a clear plastic helmet that covers everything but the ears and mouth from the neck up and eliminates background noise. Handerpants Fingerless Gloves If [...]
Celebrate National Small Biz Week
Next week the nation’s top entrepreneurs will come together in Washington, D.C. and virtually via the Internet for a three-day celebration of National Small Business Week, hosted by the SBA from May 22-25. With a theme of Driving America’s Economy, this year’s event is sponsored by some heavy hitters in the world of business innovation [...]
chron: A lot of little girls had Easy-Bake Ovens. But not many of them turned that initial interest in concocting tiny cakes into a full-fledged baking career. Adria Carter is one of those whose early adventures with batter eventually led to a grown-up desire to create cookies, brownies and cakes. “From the time I was [...]
Anyone who’s gotten to know a child knows how incredible they can be. Sure, they blurt out embarrassing observations in public, but that’s because they don’t filter their thoughts. And yes, they occasionally ruin wallpaper with crayons or finger paint, but that’s because their creativity knows no bounds. Woman’s Day found these examples of children [...]
Quest Turns Into MultiMillion Dollar Biz
Billings Gazette: Kim Ormsby was supposed to be a corporate executive or a veterinarian. What she was not supposed to be was the inventor of a new kind of cloth diaper that has catapulted the growing industry forward or the founder of a natural-infant-care company that has grown explosively each year since she started it [...]
Last month, the government unveiled the new $100 bill — a colorful, high-tech Benjamin that features a 3-D security ribbon, color-shifting ink and a bunch of other bells and whistles that should frustrate counterfeiters. The new hundred, which will enter circulation next year, was greeted with mixed reviews. Some loved the color and “magical” features. [...]
9 Year Old Author Learns About Business Through Book Production
Star News Online: At first glance, Holland Baynard looks like a normal 9-year-old boy. He attends third grade at Bradley Creek Elementary School. He likes crabbing, skiing and hunting for sea creatures at the beach. He thinks visiting the Galapagos Islands would be really cool. But then, Holland is hardly ordinary. Most 9-year-olds aren’t published [...]
YouTube And The New Creative Class
According to CNet News, a half decade after YouTube’s birth, the site exceeds 2 billion views a day. It seems that everyone–from music labels to mainstream Hollywood studios to television networks–has joined the movement. Amid this vibrant, fertile, and expanding landscape, a creative class of budding, do-it-yourself media moguls–part distributor, part content creator, part producer, [...]
It’s Friday, so let’s have a little fun with Twitter. How Many Calories Do You Burn While Tweeting? 1.03 11.25 22.00 33.14 View Results Check back later today, we’ll have the results of the quiz and the real answer! Photo by Twitter.
Promoting Your Blog On Television
photo credit: William Hook Most of us who own our own blogs probably have never even thought about little own considered advertising their blog on television. It’s just not the obvious thing to think about when working with your blog. But surprisingly advertising a blog on television is not only an awesome idea, but it [...]
photo credit: citta-vita Meylah.com: We all love to get new customers…it’s not only great for business, it’s great for future business. A happy and satisfied customer is a customer that comes back – and that puts you in the business of reordering rather than the business of selling, which is where we all want to [...]
